Aimpoint AB is a Swedish optics company based in Malmö, Sweden that manufactures red dot sights. Aimpoint is a contractor for the United States military and supplies the Aimpoint CompM4. Aimpoint products are used by various armed forces, and are marketed to civilians for hunting and sport. The Aimpoint Comp sights, such as the CompM2, are Aimpoint's most popular product line.

Company

Aimpoint is a manufacturing company founded in 1974. Their primary products are reflector (or reflex) sights, specifically the red dot sight sub-type. In 1975 they introduced their first product, the "Aimpoint Electronic" red dot sight, based on a design by Helsingborg engineer John Arne Ingemund Ekstrand. This is the first light emitting diode (LED) "red dot" reflector sight manufactured. Aimpoint currently offers various products based on this technology. In 1997 the US Army awarded Aimpoint the first military contract for a red dot sight, the Aimpoint CompM2, designated the “M68 Close Combat Optic”.

Products

Aimpoint's red dot sights are marketed to hunters, marksmen, law-enforcement agencies, and military organizations. Nearly 3,000,000 sights are in use world wide today. Their products use non-magnifying optical collimators (reflector or "reflex" sights) and battery powered LEDs to produce an illuminated red dot reticle. Many sights utilize a mangin mirror system, consisting of a meniscus lens corrector element combined with a semi-reflective mirror (referred to as a "two lens" or "double lens" system by Aimpoint ), that compensates for spherical aberration, an error that can cause the dot position to diverge from the sight's optical axis with change in eye position. Aimpoint markets their sights as "parallax free", but this seems to refer to their off-axis spherical aberration correction system at one optimized viewing distance. Aimpoints, like all collimated sight systems, induce some parallax at non-optimized viewing distances. Aimpoint has separate distributors for their military and civilian products in many countries.

Aimpoint mounting standards

Aimpoint has launched a series of proprietary mounts for their products. These include: